The Top Albums from 1966
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Rank | All
Time | Artist | Album | Buy at
Amazon | Song
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| 1 |
1 | The Beach Boys
| Pet Sounds
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| 2 |
2 | The Beatles
| Revolver
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| 3 |
7 | Bob Dylan
| Blonde on Blonde
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Listen
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| 4 |
125 | The Rolling Stones
| Aftermath
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Listen
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| 5 |
236 | The Mothers of Invention
| Freak Out!
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Listen
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| 6 |
306 | John Mayall
| Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton
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Listen
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| 7 |
553 | The Kinks
| Face to Face
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Listen
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| 8 |
752 | Simon and Garfunkel
| Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
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| 9 |
758 | Ike and Tina Turner
| River Deep - Mountain High
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| 10 |
780 | Otis Redding
| Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
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Listen
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| 11 |
789 | The Byrds
| Fifth Dimension
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Listen
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| 12 |
892 | The Mamas and the Papas
| If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
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Listen
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| 13 |
1000 | Cream
| Fresh Cream
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Listen
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| 14 |
1021 | 13th Floor Elevators
| The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
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| 15 |
1028 | Yardbirds
| Yardbirds/Over Under Sideways Down/Roger the Engineer
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Listen
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| 16 |
1078 | John Coltrane
| Ascension
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Listen
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| 17 |
1097 | Fred Neil
| Fred Neil/Everybody's Talkin'
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| 18 |
1102 | Simon and Garfunkel
| Sounds of Silence
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Listen
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| 19 |
1264 | Monks
| Black Monk Time
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| 20 |
1310 | Cecil Taylor
| Unit Structures
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Listen
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| 21 |
1319 | Buffalo Springfield
| Buffalo Springfield
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Listen
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| 22 |
1496 | Donovan
| Sunshine Superman
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Listen
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| 23 |
1516 | Larry Young
| Unity
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Listen
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| 24 |
1521 | The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
| East-West
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Listen
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| 25 |
1659 | Tim Hardin
| Tim Hardin 1
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| 26 |
1737 | John Coltrane
| Meditations
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Listen
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| 27 |
1795 | Wayne Shorter
| Adam's Apple
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Listen
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| 28 |
1855 | James Carr
| You Got My Mind Messed Up
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Listen
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| 29 |
1937 | Skip James
| Today!
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Listen
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| 30 |
1982 | Ornette Coleman
| At the Golden Circle, Volume One
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Listen
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| 31 |
2019 | Sun Ra
| The Magic City
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Listen
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| 32 |
2224 | The Who
| A Quick One
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Listen
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| 33 |
2235 | The Monkees
| The Monkees
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Listen
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| 34 |
2302 | Lee Morgan
| Cornbread
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Listen
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| 35 |
2311 | Sun Ra
| Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 2
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Listen
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| 36 |
2382 | Ornette Coleman
| At the Golden Circle, Volume Two
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Listen
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| 37 |
2383 | Love
| Love
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| 38 |
2454 | Roscoe Mitchell Sextet
| Sound
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Listen
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| 39 |
2460 | Wilson Pickett
| The Exciting Wilson Pickett
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| 40 |
2509 | Sonny Rollins
| East Broadway Run Down
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Listen
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| 41 |
2570 | Don Cherry
| Complete Communion
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Listen
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| 42 |
2664 | The Animals
| Animalisms/Animalization
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| 43 |
2781 | Joe Henderson
| Mode for Joe
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Listen
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| 44 |
2795 | The Lovin' Spoonful
| Daydream
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Listen
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| 45 |
2871 | Ennio Morricone
| Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Listen
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| 46 |
2880 | Otis Redding
| The Soul Album
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| 47 |
2912 | The Animals
| Animalism
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| Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: |
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| Sun Ra
| Other Planes of There
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| Phil Ochs
| Phil Ochs in Concert
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| Nina Simone
| Wild Is the Wind
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| Buck Owens and His Buckaroos
| Carnegie Hall Concert
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| Jimmy Smith and Wes Mongomery
| Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo
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Listen
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| John Coltrane
| Live at the Village Vanguard Again!
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Listen
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| The Fugs
| The Fugs
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| Frank Sinatra
| Sinatra at the Sands
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| John Handy
| Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival
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| Bert Jansch
| Jack Orion
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Buddy Rich
| Swingin' New Big Band
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| Sun Ra
| Visits Planet Earth
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| Sam & Dave
| Hold On, I'm Comin'
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| Archie Shepp
| Mama Too Tight
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| Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
| Away We A Go-Go
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| Jr. Walker & The All Stars
| Road Runner
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| The Supremes
| The Supremes A' Go-Go
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| The Lovin' Spoonful
| Hums of The Lovin' Spoonful
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The Beatles
| "Yesterday" ...and Today
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| Merle Haggard
| Swinging Doors and the Bottle Let Me Down
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| Stevie Wonder
| Up-Tight, Everything's Alright
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| Krzysztof Komeda
| Astigmatic
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| The Walker Brothers
| Portrait
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| The Association
| And Then...Along Comes The Association
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| Four Tops
| On Top
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